There is no reason for any suggestion that Mr. Hughes would resign, nor is there any reason for the suggestion that Mr. Mellon wou...ld resign, if either of them did not get exactly what they wanted from Congress; and I am not going to resign because I don't get what I want.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not b...e dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If I am defeated for the next nomination, I think it will be by [Charles Evans] Hughes. And I don't think he will allow his name t...o be used unless he really feels that I have no chance to win. I do not think Theodore Roosevelt will allow his name to come before the convention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we d...o want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »